Okay so I'm mildly confused here. I want to make a WPI tool. Here I am searching methods and coming up with things that confuse the snot out of me. example: One site says to take a 1/4 dowel and mark 1 inch and wrap. Next site says take a piece of wood that is one inch tall by 6 or so inches long and mark off 1 inch and wrap. Now maybe it's just perspective, but would that not yield two different counts? I'd test it out if I had the mats at hand, but my chance of getting to a hardware store is slim atm... Does anyone have a pattern or link to a pattern for one of these?

(and yes, I know a standard ruler would work just fine, but I want to make something perty... cause I'm intoxicated with spining tools to.. not just spinning...)

i think it would be the way I would see it... it takes more yarn to go around a piece that is say 1 inch by 1 inch by 1/4 inch then it would to go around a piece that is 1 inch by 1/2 inch by 1/4 inch. But I guess you could probably wrap it around a piece that is a foot by 1 inch by 1/2 inch and get the same amount of wraps in that one inch, right? I confuse easily. Especially now that I'm pregnant again... But I think you cleared it up for me. it doesn't mater how much yarn you use, it maters how many times the yarn wraps in that one inch.

I think you've got it, too. Yes, it takes more LENGTH of yarn if the tool is larger, but the yarn still takes up the same THICKNESS in an inch based on the number of times you wrap around the tool. (I hope that didn't confuse you more XD)

I just recieved the latest issue of Spin Off, and there was an article on the WPI system of measurement. And if everyone had a stick that weighs 1oz, that they could hang fromt he yarn they are measuring, then the measurement is more accurate, for person to person. This is a really clever fix, for the problems with this method!